The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.